I couldn’t explain to you the technique I use to choose the new series I’m going to watch at home. Sometimes My best friend recommends it to me. Other times I listen to my instinct and classic shot. other It’s Stephen King who tells me what to watch and others, an authentic jewel that I dedicate myself to recommending and recommending without rest comes into my hands by chance. Like this week.
It is a miniseries of Netflix that has been hidden in the catalog among so many premieres that no one is watching it. And it’s a real shame because it’s one of the best on the platform.
Makanai: the cook of the maikothe hidden Netflix miniseries
Hirokazu Koreeda signatureauthor of a family affair that in Espinof they call a precious tale of thieves and the film with which it was made with the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018. Makanai: the cook of the maiko is based on a comic, but not just any comic, the bestseller by Aiko Koyama that has sold almost two million copies, Maiko-san chi no Makanai-san.
We traveled to Kyoto, in Japanand not to eat mochis. Well, actually a bit too because this miniseries focuses on Kiyo and Sumire, two friends who travel to the best hanamachi or geisha district in Kyoto to become the so-called maiko, geisha apprentices. But Kiyo is clumsy. Being a geisha doesn’t seem like it for her no matter how hard she tries, although what she is good at is being makanai, the house cook.
Its protagonists, Nana Mori and Natsuki Deguchi, are absolutely wonderful and it’s not just that we’re going to see big hits in Hirokazu Koreeda’s miniseries for Netflix, it’s that it’s an authentic gastronomic journey that does not lack a single detail. She’s pretty, she’s cute and she’s hidden, so you can be the recommender this week. All advantages.
Photos | Makanai: the cook of the maiko (Netflix)
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